Jude Brothers

Music

Northwest Arkansas

A folk-derived singer-songwriter from Fayetteville playing harp, guitar, and tenor banjo with a style critics have called haunting, whimsical, and deeply captivating.

Freakfolk harpist and songwriter from the Ozarks.

Jude Brothers is a freak folk singer-songwriter from Northwest Arkansas, inspired by the regional folk music of their Ozark home, while always reaching for the roots therein and branches thereout. Their sound is an eclectic blend of traditional sensibilities and contemporary concerns, a feral strangeness and delicate sweetness, an unnerving ancientness and an endearing naivety - an artist comfortable navigating their own contradictions. Brothers offers old school folk heads a taste of timelessness, evocative lyricism, and unparalleled vocal stylings over a bed of whirling harp & guitar melodies.

At the Arkansas Folklife Festival, Brothers appears in the Women’s Ballads session with Carolina Mendoza and Cindy Woolf, a conversation about the place of women’s voices in the Ozark ballad tradition.